The scenario: Your path environment is similar to "/home/user/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" You have a binary in your path such as /home/user/bin/putty which you delete hoping to use the same binary further down the path...
I'm putting this here so I can recall it for later The following snippet finds all files where the File's data was last modified more than 2 days ago and run the move command on each file to move them to the specified directory. find -mtime +2 -type f -print -exec mv...
When it comes to getting user input and performing an action in a Windows environment there are several convenient options: You can purchase a Microsoft development environment for several thousand dollars such as Visual Studio (or whatever is the latest name for it)....
I create a few how-to and step by step manuals for my users at work which include multiple screen shots. I do this using OpenOffice which has a handy export to PDF feature. However when trying to insert screen shots into a document it becomes very laborious to do...
I have installed a small app using Wine under Ubuntu 8.04 however the desktop launcher icon isn't the correct one for the application. Windows frequently stores application icons in the programs exe file. So to fix my launcher icon I need to extract the icon from the...
When installing SEPM it complains of port 1812 being in use and the word Enforcer. If you check c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services you will find port 1812 is the Radius port. The Microsoft term for a Radius Server is Internet Authentication Service (IAS)....
Just noticed a zip file in my email which SEP hasn't picked up. Considering that clamav has been finding this for several days it's a bit of a worry when the purchased product doesn't.
It's simple: Login remotely to your Linux based home computer via ssh. Create a text file with the contents you want to say in it. vi ilu.txt Lisa, I love you. :wq Then run festival with the following arguments festival --tts ilu.txt If all runs well your computer...
So today we bought 30kg of Layer Pellets from Furneys. I'm not sure if it's too early because you are supposed to feed them "Pullet Grower" pellets until they start to lay, then switch to Layer Pellets. However I'm reasoning that they shouldn't be too far away from...
We had a bit of an episode today. Lisa (my wife) decided she was going to mow the lawn and as she went past the chicken coop they (3 chooks) freaked out and flew over the 6' high fence into our and the neighbours backyards. Lisa had to climb the fence and grab one...